Who is Stewart Home?

Iain Sinclair

Aline of brightly painted stone cottages, out there at the end of the world, beyond Allihies in West Cork. The cottages have been extensively tampered with, knocked through, until they form a single unit, set square to the prevailing on-shore winds. The occupier, New York-born to a childhood in John Cheever commuting country, now reinvented as a Vietnam-vintage Irish citizen, removes all the offending oil paintings from the wall: jewelled landscapes in oil; lively, naive renderings of the headland on which the cottages have been built. Expressionist weather systems have been brought indoors, a wall of light in the smokey darkness. These endearing celebrations of place glisten in the firelight, when the rock fields they represent are lost in the inevitable sea-fret, the mist drifting down from the hills.

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The books discussed in this article include:

The Complete Richard Allen, Vols I-III (ST Publishing, £6.95 each, 1992, 1993, 1994,0 9518497 1 9, 0 9518497 5 1 and 0 9518497 7 8).

The Festival of Plagiarism by Stewart Home (Sabotage, 40 pp., £1.95, 1989, 0 9514417 0).

Pure Mania by Stewart Home (Polygon, 217 pp., £7.95, 1989, 0 7486 6035 6).

Defiant Pose by Stewart Home (Peter Owen, 167 pp., £13.95, 1991, 0 7206 0828 7).

Neoist Manifestos/The Art Strike Papers by Stewart Home (AK Press, 112 pp., £5.95, 1991, 1 873176 15 5).

No Pity by Stewart Home (AK Press, 144 pp., £5.95, 1993, 1 873176 46 5).

Red London by Stewart Home (AK Press, 160 pp., £5.95, 1994, 1 873176 12 0).

Public Enemies by Leo Regan (Deutsch, 112 pp., £12.99, 28 October 1993, 0 233 98830 0).